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She has learned to love. To fear. To hate. And then to love again. Through it all, she writes.~Once Upon A Time There Was A Girl -- Kimberly Kinrade
Once Upon A Time In America' is one of the cleverest films of all time, because you can get out of it whatever you want to get out of it. -- Ray Winstone
Once upon a time is now. -- Emilie Autumn
Once upon a time lasts forever -- Philip Pullman
To Grandma: Once upon a time, there was a boy who flew. -- Chris Colfer
Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time. -- Marissa Meyer
Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever. -- Philip Pullman
Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart. -- Bonnie Tyler
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well. -- Laini Taylor
Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person. -- Anne Tyler
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time. -- John D. Barrow
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. -- Nicole Krauss
We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. -- Philip Pullman
McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time ... -- Graham Chapman
Be strong and of good courage. You are truly royal spirit daughters of Almighty God. You are princesses, destined to become queens. Your own wondrous story has already begun. Your "once upon a time" is now. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc. -- Brian Froud
Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been. -- Raymond Carver
Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best children's stories begin, and "prostitute" is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning. -- Paulo Coelho
Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time. -- Haruki Murakami
Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary. -- Gertrude Stein
Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME! -- Adam Gidwitz
Once upon a time there was no Time. -- John D. Barrow
Once upon a time I owned a watermelon. -- Irving Bacheller
Once upon a time when there was no time. -- John D. Barrow
Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic. -- James Balog
Once upon a time, I awoke in a strange place... -- Josh Ramsay
Once upon a time the English knew who they were. -- Anna Pavlova
Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'. -- Terry Pratchett
Once upon a time, man had a love affair with fire. -- Robert R. McCammon
O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life. -- Tom Ford
Once upon a time wasn't as long ago as it used to be. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Once upon a time, there was a story. But no one to tell it. -- A.D.Y. Howle
Once upon a time . . . What time are we upon and where do I belong? -- Francesca Lia Block
Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time" . . . they're lying -- Jodi Picoult
Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now. -- Stephen Mitchell
That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again. -- Helen Oyeyemi
Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'. -- Rupert Sanders
Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that. -- Herta Muller
I've nothing against the Queen personally: I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time. -- Seamus Heaney
Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end. -- Dan Harmon
Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas -- Carl Jung
That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night. -- Harry Crews
Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. -- Beatrix Potter
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. -- Margaret Atwood
rush of pine scent (once upon a time),the unlicensed convictionthere ought to be another wayof sayingthis. -- Paul Celan
Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, runners believed they didn't have to do anything but run -- Amby Burfoot
Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around. -- Gertrude Stein
Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time. -- Jimmy Buffett
Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up. -- Rachel Cohn
Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change. -- Lorraine Hansberry
Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart. -- Philip Pullman
There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time. -- John D. Barrow
Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes the story worth telling. -- Chris Colfer
Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite. -- Elie Wiesel
Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison. -- Chris Wooding
I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean. -- John Sayles
Once upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist. And a devil knelt over him and smiled. -- Laini Taylor
Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths. -- Vernor Vinge
Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself. -- Don DeLillo
Once upon a time, I thought denial was a river in Egypt. It's actually the attitude of the Abbott government. -- Bill Shorten
The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time. -- Kate DiCamillo
Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell. -- Charles de Lint
Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky. -- Laini Taylor
Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge. -- Elie Wiesel
Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..." -- William Bennett
There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time. -- Stephen King
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two. -- Laini Taylor
Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected. -- Carolyn Warner
I'm letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn't work well. -- Nikki Gil
Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about. -- Mary Higgins Clark
Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time. But now that it's the opposite it's twice upon a time. -- Moondog
Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in America' is a brilliant movie. It's about four hours long, but it's so well done. -- Erik Estrada
People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time. -- Muriel Barbery
Truly, there is magic in fairytales.For it takes but a simply-uttered 'Once upon a time' to allure and spellbind an audience. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
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Truly, there is magic in fairytales.For it takes but a simply-uttered 'Once upon a time...' to allure and spellbind an audience. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Once upon a time, there were only three or four dominant women. Now, there are 10 to 15 who can vie for a Grand Slam. -- Stephane Simian
The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time. -- Peter Abrahams
Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone. -- Laini Taylor
Once upon a time, there was a generation of parents who were certain that Elvis Presley's unashamed hip-swivellingvwas most certainly the end of society. -- Charlie Caruso
My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America]. -- Sergio Leone
Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish. -- Charles Fourier
We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.' -- Jonathan Gottschall
What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen. -- George Burns
Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Stop this. It's undignified. -- N. K. Jemisin
Really believing in "once upon a time". Believing that it will draw you in, take you with me to a place you've never been before. -- Cameron Dokey
Maybe a story will cheer you up... Once upon a time there was an ugly barnacle. It was so ugly that everyone died. The end. -- Patrick Star
Once upon a time I was falling in love but now I'm only falling apart. There's nothing I can do, a total eclipse of the heart -- Bonnie Tyler
Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their wings. -- Laini Taylor
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself. -- Herbert Hoover
Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today. -- Joshua Foer
When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written. -- Justine Larbalestier
Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times. -- Diane Setterfield
When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written. -- Justine Larbalestier
Once upon a time, I could sing three hours. Now, when you see me say 'I'm done,' I'm done; ain't nothing left till the next night. -- Bobby Womack
Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how to define ourselves. -- Tamar Jacoby
Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie. -- Wim Wenders
Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time never comes again. -- Johnny Mercer
The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale starts with " This ain't no $hit"! -- Edith Widder
As I child, I came to this idea with a horrified fascination. Once upon a time, I wasn't here. Before that, my parents weren't here. And before that"¦ -- John Burnside
The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew. -- Ellen Hopkins
When I used Claudia [Cardinale] for example, in Once Upon a Time in the West, she represented the birth of American matriarchy. Because women had enormous weight in America. -- Sergio Leone
Once upon a time we were all born, popped out like jelly rolls forgetting our fishdom, the pleasuring seas, the country of comfort, spanked into the oxygens of death.... -- Anne Sexton

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